VacationSelector

Paphos or Tallinn?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Paphos
46
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PaphosTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 25 points.25
PaphosTallinn
Score7954
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km2718
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
PaphosTallinn
Score4462
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 40 points.40
PaphosTallinn
Score2262
Museums within 10 km871
Museums within 2 km of centre357
Share of museums within 2 km %3880
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
PaphosTallinn
Score3046
Drinking venues within 4 km224462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7280
Nightclubs within 4 km1143
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
PaphosTallinn
Score2331
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3353
Park area within 2 km27 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 9 points.9
PaphosTallinn
Score4251
Tourist attractions within 2 km3020
Park area within 2 km27 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 43 points.43
PaphosTallinn
Score1962
Notable places within 2 km12135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos and Tallinn are level on 70.
PaphosTallinn
Score7070
Price level global61.462.4
Daily budget€129€143
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 38 points.38
PaphosTallinn
Score8648
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months84
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromPaphosTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
RigaRIX
3 h 40 m
€224-279
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 10 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ChaniaCHQ
1 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 5 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ThessalonikiSKG
1 h 55 m
€96-218
PFO · 8 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
BirminghamBHX
4 h 35 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-09, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasurePaphosTallinn
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m28 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosTallinn
City population35,961457,572
People per km²1,9872,871
Museums within 10 km415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3663
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.